Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 35

Then the slaughterer said he would do as she wished, so he cut off the head and nailed it fast under the dark gate.

Who acts: slaughterer, man, princess · What happens: say, do, wish, cut off, nail · To what, where: head, dark gate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slaughterer, man, princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slaughterer	det
3	slaughterer	slaughterer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 wished	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wished	nsubj
10	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cut	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 cut	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cut	nsubj
14	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
15	off	off	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 head	det
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 nailed	cc
19	nailed	nail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 nailed	obj
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 nailed	advmod
22	under	under	ADP	_	25 gate	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gate	det
24	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gate	amod
25	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nailed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the slaughterer			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	would	man					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wish	past	princess					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	cut off	past	man	the head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
5	nail	past	man not said here	head	the dark gate		fast property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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